Emilio Velis

Executive Director
Executive director, Appropedia Foundation
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José Roberto Gamero

Emilio Velis is Executive Director of the Appropedia Foundation with a special focus on sustainability and international development, with work that spans different areas of the open movement for social impact. Emilio is also Chapter Leader of Creative Commons in El Salvador and a board member of the Internet Society El Salvador Chapter. He is an adjunct lecturer at the Escuela Superior de Economía y Negocios in El Salvador and of the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University, MA.

Emilio Velis's participation at re:publica is kindly made possible by the Robert Bosch Stiftung.

Sessions

Lost in the Funhouse: Knowledge Distribution In a Splintered Web

Emilio Velis, Nadait Gebremedhen, Regina Sipos

Summary
We will host a discussion for members of open source projects, nonprofits, grassroots organizers, content creators, or members of digital communities interested in disseminating content to real communities to produce tangible change through alternatives to knowledge curation and distribution.
Activism
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Civil Society
Meet Up
Meet Up
English
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